Lucie Audibert

Lucie is a solicitor qualified in England & Wales, specialised in strategic litigation and advice at the intersection of human rights, data protection, public law, information law, national security and digital/technology regulation. She has particular expertise in supporting individuals, groups and communities to exercise their rights and seek redress against government and corporate actors.

Experience

Lucie acts in high-profile litigation and individual advisory matters at the intersection of technology and human rights. Notable matters include:

• Acting for Jess Asato MP in her claim against xAI, the company behind Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot, over the creation of non-consensual, sexualised deepfake images – one of the first claims in the UK to test the liability of AI developers for the way their systems are designed.
• Acting for Sarah Wynn-Williams – former Global Public Policy Director at Meta – in relation to her bestselling memoir Careless People and related arbitration proceedings.
• Clearview AI v The Information Commissioner: Acting for Privacy International in its successful third-party intervention in a jurisdictional challenge in the Upper Tribunal, on the applicability of UK data protection law to the activities of a US-based facial recognition technology company.
• RTM v Bonne Terre: A challenge to Sky Betting & Gaming’s processing of a problem gambler’s personal data for profiling and targeted advertising, currently before the Court of Appeal.
• Legal opinion for the Ada Lovelace Institute: A legal opinion on the state of protection in English law against the harms caused by advanced AI assistants.
• Advising the Mozilla Foundation on fair terms for social media research access to data from large online platforms.
• Bringing applications for judicial review of public authorities’ decisions affecting the data rights of individuals and communities.
• Challenging public authorities’ refusals to disclose information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in the First-Tier (Information Rights) Tribunal.
• Acting for individuals in seeking redress and compensation for infringement of their rights, including against prominent data and technology companies and government departments.
• Advising public policy clients and lawmakers on reforms to surveillance powers, data protection law and online safety regulations, including drafting amendments.

Prior to AWO, Lucie was a Senior Legal Officer at global NGO Privacy International, where she brought strategic legal challenges at the intersection of technology and human rights. She secured enforcement action against the UK government’s policy of GPS tagging migrants, led third-party interventions in the High Court and at the European Court of Human Rights in challenges to Mobile Phone Extraction in policing and immigration control, and successfully challenged a number of FOI refusals leading to high-profile disclosures. Lucie also led legal advocacy on major EU regulatory initiatives such as the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive or Artificial Intelligence Act, and advised UN agencies on AI, data protection, surveillance and business & human rights.

Lucie has expertise in Intellectual Property advice and litigation, having trained and worked as an associate at Taylor Wessing LLP. She accepts instructions on IP matters, notably when these intersect with Artificial Intelligence and creatives' rights issues.

She is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh on migration and forced displacement in a digital age.

Publications

Lucie has written for a number of academic publications on technology and human rights law, such as a chapter in The Palgrave Handbook on Racial Injustice and Resistance, or articles in SCRIPTed - A Journal of Law, Technology & Society, Computers & Law, the Oxford Business Law Blog or French journal Plein Droit. She has published opinion pieces in Al Jazeera and Le Monde, and is regularly quoted in leading media outlets such as The Guardian, BBC or WIRED.

Education

Lucie holds a first-class Bachelor of Laws from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from McGill University. She recently graduated from the MSc in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford, with the Christof Heyns prize for highest overall mark in her cohort.